This paper gives an overview of Pierre Bayle’s theory of toleration and derives a normative principle of toleration from it that is meant to compete with other normative principles of toleration such as the Harm principle. INDEX WORDS: Political philosophy, Social philosophy, toleration, religion, Christianity, justice, legitimacy, stability, John Locke, Pierre Bayle, Baruch Spinoza, Harm princ...

Biography Maria Brincker is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Massachusetts Boston and has previously held an Arts & Neuroscience fellowship at Columbia University. Her interdisciplinary work spans a broad array of topics within philosophy of mind and neuroscience, such as affordance perception, mirror neuron theories, sensorimotor grounding of cognition, typical a...

Language change is paradoxical: Children acquire their native language accurately, yet over time, the language can change. Some changes may be attributed to an external event, such as political upheaval, but not every instance of language change seems to have an external cause. A possible resolution to this paradox comes from the facts that (1) spoken language has inherent variation and (2) chi...

USKALI MÄKI (Helsinki, 1951) is a philosopher of science and a social scientist, and one of the forerunners of the strong wave of research on the philosophy and methodology of economics that has been expanding during the last three decades. His research interests and academic contributions cover many topics in the philosophy of economics, such as realism and realisticness, idealisation, scienti...